When one thinks of any Golden Age, the first thing that comes to mind is the 17th-century Netherlands at its glory – the Dutch Golden Age.

Egbert van Heemskerck the Elder (1634–1704) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in genre scenes of the lower classes in the manner of Adriaen Brouwer ... by the work of Brouwer and other ...

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...

What is it about a play first written in French by Samuel Beckett in 1948–49 and produced (eventually) in a tiny Parisian theatre in 1953 that makes it so eminently watchable, even powerful and still ...

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, two donors, and the heirs of Jewish art dealers Paul Graupe and Arthur Goldschmidt have reached a deal concerning Adriaen van Ostade’s painting Customers Conversing in ...

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Linda Selvin Executive Director, Appraisers Association of America Artnet is an essential tool for both art market professionals and art lovers at large. Every day, I consult its Price Database. Simon ...

Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.

Calle is famous for her examination of people’s personal lives—and her own—in an almost voyeuristic way. But, despite the title of her latest show, 'Overshare', she says her work exposes ...

Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Inbetween Days, 2024. Marquetry hybrid: wood veneer, shellac, oil and acrylic on panel. Art: © Alison Elizabeth Taylor. Courtesy of the ...

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The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...